112 THE ORIGIN 01* CREAflOK, 



1 "by reciprocating with others being all turned topsy tui*Vy; 

 When the atoms have combined and are in position, they are 

 again transparent. Thus if we allow sugar to crystalize quietly 

 it will be transparent, but stir the syrup, and it becomes 

 opaqfte. If water freezes on a calm evening, it is transparent, 

 because the atoms are undisturbed, thus we have seen the 

 fish in the East River of Pictou, Nova Scotia, gliding along 

 tinder the ice, and yet the latter was so thick that horses and 

 sleighs .were travelling over it but if the wind blows during 

 the process of freezing, as We once observed on Dunsappie Lochj 

 near Edinburgh, Scotland, the ice, no matter how thin, becomea 

 a milky white and obscure. So it is with many other solutions k 



Mr. Proctor, in an article on Rain in the Intellectual Ob- 

 server, alludes to these observations with the rain guage, and 

 says Kamtz, explains it thus : " A drop carries with it the 

 temperature of the upper region of air, and condenses on ita 

 Surface the aqueous vapour present throughout the lower strata 

 of the atmosphere, as a decanter of cold water does when 

 brought out of a room." 



But the mere immaterial sensation of cold, could not produce 

 a material substance like rain. The cold must either be a 

 material substance itself^or it must have a material to represent 

 it. We say cold, as experienced by us, is caused by hydrogen 

 or mineral gas, being a property of it. If thea a drop fell 

 from the upper atmosphere and enlarged on entering the 

 lower, it would not do so merely from. the temperature, but 

 because the hydrogen in the drop combined with the 

 oxygen it came in contact with. Water forms on the outside 

 of the decanter in a similar manner, not by reason of the 

 temperature, but by the proximate cause of the temperature, 



